Would being mislynched later on make a difference to your chance of losing? That depends on a bunch of things. I suppose if I'm precommitted to be lynched on some day, then I could be free to help while focusing town powers on more useful targets, and my flip would prove myself. It is actually very...

@SJ: are you trying to suggest that anyone who got your role would be basically guaranteed to be lynched? That seems ridiculous. Well, there's no guarantee, but it seems likely. Mafia could always stab me in the night. Unless I presume I'm a significant outlier, then the proverbial Ms Lynch has rel...

What info do you think I might have? And why haven't you answered my question about reason to vote for you yet? Well, I'm not sure what you saw, but you seemed to be happy with the reactions it got from other people. WTF is this logic? Do you believe the mod took into account that you'd be mislynch...

Do you think SJ is acting in a measurably different way to his previous game? Note: If anyone says no, they're clearly lying. I don’t think there is a miller or a godfather, those roles would swing the balance too much to mafia. What if the Godfather is actually a Town member? And who would suspect...

Jimbob: I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who said your vote was about my meta :P. But you're also the only one I had any reason to vote for at the time. Dimochka: I'm told I need to post more, but also shouldn't be posting things. And it can't be fluff. I don't know where the middle ground is, and i...

On consideration, my two cents is that merely not getting a cop result doesn't seem worthy of a Miller-lite claim. It would have been simpler to just leave it and get seen as roleblocked or something. It probably has to be true, since it sounds easily verified. Unless it is a trap, and the investiga...

Try not to leak hints at your power unless you have a specific reason in mind why it is useful to do so. And yes, based on just the example in the OP, everyone probably has at least a token power. But I expect there is variance ranging from actual useful to more hindrance then help. I didn't say I'...

So basically, even if you had two black holes magically pinned in place, and tried to zing a photon exactly down the line directly between them, it might go past the center of mass, but it couldn't make it out the other side to infinity. IOW: There may be an open question as to which singularity you...

There is a fine line between a Neighbourhood Watch and Vigilantism. And that is the point where you start wearing a cape. It all started for me, decades ago, when my parents met in Vegas. It turns out they were both born directly opposite from each other on the Earth! That mystical triangle encompas...

Unlikely SHISV (Somitomi must not read!) Well, I'm doomed! Unless maybe Laser took inspiration from Reversi and everyone has counterproductive powers? Perhaps just the replacement bumpers are doomed? Or maybe the glass is half empty and Laserguy hates me in particular, but what are the odds of t...

If you study old age, you're likely to have a cause of death being listed as "old age" aka "natural causes". If you don't study it, you're almost as likely to die of it, but we don't mention that part. What you need to do is start a convincing campaign to adjust how coroners work...

While you're at it, lets fix the idiocy of adding gunk to the sides of a portrait-mode video so that it becomes a landscape video. I keep wondering what NSFW action they're blurring out on the side of the image. At least they haven't yet done the same thing for the audio channel. (Look at these hug...

Fair enough, it makes a kind of sense, as an abstract. But think about the sentence "three sheep were in the petting zoo for four durations.", one wants to ask, which durations? Years, days, hours? There's no real question of how many sheep three is. The four durations were Monday afterno...

Unlikely Superheroes and Improbable Supervillains Super strength? No. Super speed? If only. Flight? Yeah, right. When it came to the superpower lottery, your ticket said "Please play again." But when the forces of evil rise up and all of the A-list superheroes are busy, who will stand aga...

The tiebreaker power is mostly a threat to force people to pay attention to the vote and hammer instead of NLing to wait out any compulsive mafia NKs. It is a bit odd that the epilogue votes don't go they way they naturally would if the game had been played out to zero, but as far as I know there is...

I assumed a one-on-one would end in a tied vote and I could self-hammer for the win. Anyway, good game town, you got me. How would town players ever win at all in that case? The surviving townie would have to have two votes or a self-vig or something. This concept is fun, I'd be down for a larger 8...

Freezeblade has been lynched Wam channeled his inner Sherlock, jumped to a surprising twist conclusion, glazed over the plot holes and started explaining it in simple terms while pacing back and forth. The explanation kept him and Somitomi distracted while the crate was loaded and the postal truck ...

Reversi This is coming right down to the wire. What will somitomi claim? Anything from the pre-claimed mundane Miller to the flipped Overworked Doctor could be plausible and thus fair game. Hmm... I suppose somi also expects there is a 50/50 chance of there having been a no-result copping; that make...

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/reinvent_the_wheel.png Title text: Right now it's a bicycle wheel, so we've had to move to lighter vehicles, but the reduced overhead is worth it. There was one week when a wheel of cheese got dangerously close to the first page, though. Wheels are easy enough to implem...

The townsfolk had put together quite a nice shipping crate from all the spare wood around the village, and every last stamp collection had been raided to plaster the surface with enough postage for one person by weight. The three stood around and stared carefully at each other; the postal truck wou...